/tags/cara-shousterman Cara Shousterman en-US Copyright © 2024 �������� Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:17:05 GMT /arts/2018-03-14/herre-and-thurr-how-st-louisans-celebrate-identity-and-accents-on-314-day Inspired by the work of Nelly, Chingy and other St. Louis rappers, a group of linguists at New York University began studying the “urr” sound in the mid-2000s. At the time, many linguists still wrongly believed that African-American English sounded the same all across the country — a myth that persisted in the field for decades. Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:17:05 GMT /arts/2018-03-14/herre-and-thurr-how-st-louisans-celebrate-identity-and-accents-on-314-day Carolina Hidalgo